{"id":277,"date":"2009-08-26T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-08-26T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:56:02","slug":"hailstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/08\/hailstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailstorm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-279\" title=\"hail-damage-to-van-sm\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/08\/hail-damage-to-van-sm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"hail-damage-to-van-sm\" width=\"131\" height=\"131\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-283\" title=\"hail-stone-3-hrs-after-storm-sm2\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/08\/hail-stone-3-hrs-after-storm-sm2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"hail-stone-3-hrs-after-storm-sm2\" width=\"131\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/08\/hail-stone-3-hrs-after-storm-sm2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/08\/hail-stone-3-hrs-after-storm-sm2-299x300.jpg 299w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/08\/hail-stone-3-hrs-after-storm-sm2.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-284\" title=\"corn-field-beaten-down-sm2\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/08\/corn-field-beaten-down-sm2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"corn-field-beaten-down-sm2\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 10h30 Sunday morning, August 9 in Eldora, IA there was a terrible hailstorm.\u00a0 The hail was golf ball to tennis ball size with winds up to 70 mph.\u00a0 My parents were there having spent the night following a wedding and were in church when the storm came through.\u00a0 They all went downstairs when the lights went out.\u00a0 When they came back up there was broken glass and hailstones in the sanctuary and hallways.\u00a0 There car was spared a broken window, but every panel has hail damage.<\/p>\n<p>My brother and family were camping nearby having gone to the same wedding.\u00a0 The van above is theirs&#8211;totaled.\u00a0 They sheltered in the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-285\" title=\"house-siding-damage-sm\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/08\/house-siding-damage-sm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"house-siding-damage-sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> van and a car, also with a broken windshield, and actually a tent!\u00a0 In a lot of ways it was hell on earth for a few minutes.\u00a0 By God&#8217;s grace they were spared injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The damge that come in only 15 minutes from such a storm is overwhelming, indescribable.\u00a0 Farmers in the area were some of the biggest losers as many fields were wiped out or suffered very heavy losses.\u00a0 Every house in town was damaged and most probably need their roofs replaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=277&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10h30 Sunday morning, August 9 in Eldora, IA there was a terrible hailstorm.\u00a0 The hail was golf ball to tennis ball size with winds up to 70 mph.\u00a0 My parents were there having spent the night following a wedding and were in church when the storm came through.\u00a0 They all went downstairs when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hailstorm! 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